Language-Independent Programmer's Interface

Abstract

The paper addresses the general problem of creating a suitable on- line environment for programming. The amount of software, and the effort required to produce it, to support such an on-line environment is very large relative to that needed to produce a programming language, and is largely responsible for the scarcity of such programming environments. The size of this effort was largely responsible for the scrapping of a major language (QA4(1)) as a separate entity and its inclusion instead as a set of extensions in a LISP(2) environment. The few systems which do exist (e.g., LISP, APL(3), BASIC(4), and PL/I(5)) have greatly benefited their users and have strongly contributed to the widespread acceptance of the associated language.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0777957

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  • Robert M. Balzer

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  • University of Southern California

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